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January 2013

Issue no. 02

Minister lays foundation of annex domestic terminal

Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil

Aviation Mr. Post BahadurBogati laid the

foundation stone of the Annex Domestic

Terminal Building at TIA (TribhuvanInternational Airport), Kathmandu at an

auspicious morning hour of January 18,

2013 amidst a colorful gathering of the

different stakeholders of the terminal

buildin . The Annex will be located in

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

2 Details of Annex to Domestic Terminal building at TIA

3 Brief on Capacity Development Project of CAAN

Civil aviation authority

of Nepal

Minister Post BahadurBogati and

Secretary SushilGhimire attended

front of the existing domestic terminal,presently used as domestic baggagedelivery area.

Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Tourismand Civil Aviation Mr. SushilGhimireappreciated the disable - friendly

feature of the new annex building andwished for its timely construction.

Director General of Civil AviationAuthority of Nepal Mr. Tri RatnaManandhar highlighted the importanceof the annex terminal to ease thecrowd in the existing terminal buildingespecially in sterile area during flightdelays and to cope with the highgrowth in domestic air traffic. He saidthat investment in infrastructure willnever be wasted. So, the Authority is

investing in black topping ten domesticairports this year from its own internalresources and a modern car park infront of the international terminalbuilding at Kathmandu has beeninitiated, he said.

Mr. Tri Ratna Manandhar, DG CAAN

General Manager of TIA, CAAN Mr.

Ratish Chandra Lal Suman welcomed

the guests to the function and narrated

the fast growth of domestic traffic at TIA,

thus making the terminal facility

renovated in 1995 insufficient. Domestic

passenger movement has increased

from 1 million in 2001 to 1.5 million in

2010 and is approaching 2 million by the

year 2013. Similarly, domestic flight

movement at TIA has increased from

63,159 in 2001 to 99,290 in 2010. Cargo

handling is constrained by space in the

present terminal, he said.

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